amissus
Latin
Etymology
Perfect passive participle of āmittō (“let go; lose”).
Participle
āmissus (feminine āmissa, neuter āmissum); first/second-declension participle
- let go, having been let go
- lost, having been lost
- c. 52 BCE, Julius Caesar, Commentarii de Bello Gallico VII.15:
- Quod se prope explorata victoria celeriter amissa reciperaturos confidebant
- Because they were confident that as the victory was certain, they could recover the losses
- Quod se prope explorata victoria celeriter amissa reciperaturos confidebant
Declension
First/second-declension adjective.
| singular | plural | ||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| masculine | feminine | neuter | masculine | feminine | neuter | ||
| nominative | āmissus | āmissa | āmissum | āmissī | āmissae | āmissa | |
| genitive | āmissī | āmissae | āmissī | āmissōrum | āmissārum | āmissōrum | |
| dative | āmissō | āmissae | āmissō | āmissīs | |||
| accusative | āmissum | āmissam | āmissum | āmissōs | āmissās | āmissa | |
| ablative | āmissō | āmissā | āmissō | āmissīs | |||
| vocative | āmisse | āmissa | āmissum | āmissī | āmissae | āmissa | |
Derived terms
References
- “amissus”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- “amissus”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
- "amissus", in Charles du Fresne du Cange’s Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition with additions by D. P. Carpenterius, Adelungius and others, edited by Léopold Favre, 1883–1887)
- amissus in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.